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Editorial Review of “Building Industrial Digital Twins”

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It is an insight engine, providing not only data for descriptive and diagnostic analytics applications, but also providing essential data for predictive and prescriptive analytics applications. This book is a very timely contribution to the world of industrial digital transformation. 4) The DT Canvas (chapter 4)!

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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

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There are other dimensions of analytics that tend to focus on hindsight for business reporting and causal analysis – these are descriptive and diagnostic analytics, respectively, which are primarily reactive applications, mostly explanatory and investigatory, not necessarily actionable.